Baseball seems to be one of the hottest topics circulating around downtown at the moment now that the A’s have walked away from efforts to relocate to Fremont. Last night, the San Jose City Council officially opened up the discussion of trying to lure the Oakland A’s baseball team to downtown San Jose. Discussion of professional baseball in downtown San Jose was placed on the April 7 City Council meeting agenda by approval at the City Rules and Open Government Committee meeting. The April 7 meeting will include strategizing on how best to approach Lew Wolff, the owner of the A’s. This coincides with a group of civic and business leaders that have teamed up to lead the effort in bringing the baseball team to town. Heading the A’s to San Jose Study Group are former San Jose Mayor Susan Hammer and businessman Michael Mulcahy. Hammer has been a big advocate of professional baseball in San Jose and previously tried to attract the San Francisco Giants to San Jose when she was mayor back in the 1990s. Mulcahy leads an advocy group, Baseball San Jose, designed to support the effort to lure the A’s to San Jose. While professional baseball is still a long road ahead, its nice to see that we are stacking our lineup with heavy hitters to get the A’s to downtown San Jose.